On 2012-05-11, Carlos Mennens <carlos(dot)mennens(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a problem in SQL I don't know how to solve and while I'm sure
> there are 100+ ways to do this in ANSI SQL, I'm trying to find the
> most cleanest / efficient way. I have a table called 'users' and the
> field 'users_id' is listed as the PRIMARY KEY. I know I can use the
> COUNT function, then I know exactly how many records are listed but I
> don't know what the maximum or highest numeric value is so that I can
> use the next available # for a newly inserted record. Sadly the
> architect of this table didn't feel the need to create a sequence and
> I don't know how to find the highest value.
If you need pecisely the next value a sequence won't get you there anyway.
select max(id) from users;
that's only going to be reliable if you have a single concurent database user
doing inserts.
>
> Thank you for any assistance!
>
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